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  1. Rob Williams

    A Testing Hypothesis

    I couldn't disagree more... What's the purpose of a review site or publication that only publishes content of great products? It's no longer a review site at that point, but rather an information guide and a venue for advertisers to shill their product. If a site refuses to post content of...
  2. Rob Williams

    Our Processor Testing Suite

    It's a growing OS, to say the least, so it definitely should get some attention. The problem, though, is I have no sweet clue what to even benchmark there. On Windows, there are many common applications, like 3ds Max, Adobe Lightroom, et cetera, so if I use those, I know people are going to have...
  3. Rob Williams

    Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200

    Hi Misha: Welcome to the forums :D First off, great overclock on that chip... even unstable that's an accomplishment! That's what I suspect should happen... test an overclocked setting that's easy to apply and uses reasonable bus clocks (~400MHz on Core 2, ~175MHz on Core i7). I would want...
  4. Rob Williams

    Current Overclocked CPU World Records

    From our front-page news: With overclocking seemingly more popular than ever, maybe you've caught the bug and have begun pushing your own machine to the limits? Given the room here is too warm even in the winter, it's the last thing I'm thinking of doing right now, but I still can't help but...
  5. Rob Williams

    Fusion-io ioDrive vs. Intel X-25M in RAID 0

    From our front-page news: Fusion-io is a name that popped up last year out of nowhere, and from how things are looking, their name is going to remain in the limelight for quite some time. This is of course thanks to their ultra-fast solid-state storage solutions, such as the 160GB ioDrive that...
  6. Rob Williams

    Are Notebook Coolers Worth the Cash?

    From our front-page news: As you could probably imagine, companies approach us often regarding review ideas for products of all stripes, from motherboards to graphics cards to chassis' to whatever else is technology-related. Over the course of the past year, though, there's one product-type that...
  7. Rob Williams

    HP dv2 12.1" Ultra-Portable Notebook

    Finding a decently-sized notebook for an equally decent price can be tough, and it's for that reason that HP's dv2 is so intriguing. As a 12.1" offering, you'd expect it to cost more than $600, but not so. Equipped with AMD's Athlon Neo 64 and other competent features, the dv2 is well-worth a...
  8. Rob Williams

    MacBook Pro 13" Can't Display Millions of Colors - Or Can it?

    From our front-page news: Although I appreciate a quality display when I see one, I'm far from being a guru on the subject, so I'm absolutely stumped regarding recent news that the MacBook Pro 13" model can't display millions of colors as promised, but rather only a few hundred thousand. In a...
  9. Rob Williams

    Pandora Has Saved Internet Radio (For Now)

    From our front-page news:The future of online radio has been unclear for quite some time, thanks to the greedy music industry, but it looks as though Pandora has saved the day... not only for themselves, but for Internet radio as a whole. In a new agreement, Pandora is giving up 25% (at least)...
  10. Rob Williams

    Upgrading Ubuntu from One Major Version to Another? Simple!

    From our front-page news: Regular visitors to the site probably know by now that I'm a Linux user, and I've been using Gentoo as my preferred distribution for the past three years. But because Gentoo requires a fair amount of attention (even just for the install), when it comes to installing...
  11. Rob Williams

    New Contests from NVIDIA and Intel

    It's found under the FAQ: What countries are eligible to win prizes? We're still waiting to hear back from our sponsors about getting prizes to our friends overseas, but at the moment we can only promise United States and Canada. We hope it works out...
  12. Rob Williams

    Our Processor Testing Suite

    Quick update as posted on our front-page: Guess what's tiring? If you said, "Doing a complete overhaul on all of Techgage's methodologies and test suites", you'd be absolutely correct! It feels like forever that I've been working on things around here, but we're inching ever closer to...
  13. Rob Williams

    Google Announces Chrome OS

    From our front-page news:It looks like we can finally put another long-run rumor to rest, because Google has made it official that they've been working on their own OS, which currently goes by the name of Chrome OS. Like their browser, Chrome OS is going to be completely open source later this...
  14. Rob Williams

    New Contests from NVIDIA and Intel

    From our front-page news: We know you guys love to win stuff, so your ears are sure to perk up with the knowledge of two sweet contests being held by NVIDIA and Intel. Neither are related, but both offer up some great prizes. First is NVIDIA with their contest that aims to have gamers saying...
  15. Rob Williams

    PC Gaming Through the Ages

    DAVE? I don't think I've heard of it.
  16. Rob Williams

    5 month Core SSD v1 review

    Hmm, it really looks like you have nothing to worry about, then... speed is still kick-ass, especially for a notebook. I'm really, really temped to toss an SSD in my main machine and use it for a few months and relay my own experiences. I don't have typical benchmarks under Linux to run, but...
  17. Rob Williams

    If Software Companies were Soccer Teams

    Well, Linux and Chelsea can't be compared. One runs on little money, and one's backed by one of the richest people in the world ;-) I tell you, I'm not sure about Barca lately. They're still a great team, but they've seem to lost some of their lustre the past few years (at least to me). I wish...
  18. Rob Williams

    Mugshot Page

    Great pics! What kind of restaurant is that in the first one? As for all the fuzzy faces, it all evens out since I shave all my body hair. (not really, but I like to gross people out)
  19. Rob Williams

    Lenovo Takes Keyboard Alterations Seriously

    Of course... those will never go away. People still create keyboards based around the idea of the old clackity IBM keyboards... so the standard design as we know it is going to surpass our lifetimes without question.
  20. Rob Williams

    Top Music Inventions from the Past 50 Years

    Matt, I hear you. It's a part of audio history, really. It's too bad though, I never really appreciated it back in the day for some reason. Today, we <em>really</em> take things for granted. Stork, I agree... totally kick-ass.
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